Cliches don't happen in real life - ha!

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It's hard to believe that real life can prove that men are stupidly competitive. Even while many BC stories stress how 'men' are over competitve and 'women' are collaborative, is that how cliches work?

Check out this vileness from last Wednesday's episode on CBS of 'Survivor' (recorded last year).

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/entertainmenttv/survi...

Apparently Scumbag found it necessary to proclaim a fellow competitor as 'perpetrating a deception' because he was actually FtM. The quotes from the article may or may not have truth in them - who can say.

My mind wonders how Scumbag found out - did some grubby program-bod pass on the information in the hope of increased ratings. As if that would happen in real-life. Ha.

From the article :-
"Survivor" host Jeff Probst added to the opprobrium against Scumbag. "I cannot imagine anyone thinking what was done to Zeke was OK on any level, under any circumstances, and certainly not simply because there was a million dollars on the line," he told Entertainment Weekly. "You just don't do that to someone."

Scumbag calls his actions a "mistake" and says he's "deeply saddened." "Let me be clear, outing someone is assault," he says in his tweet. "It robs a strong, courageous person of their power and protection and opens them up to discrimination and danger. It can leave scars that haunt for a lifetime." I can't match this wording with the type of person who can do that deed. What a scriptwriter / lawyer!

GLAAD criticized the outing of Smith. "Zeke Smith, and transgender people like him, are not deceiving anyone by being their authentic selves," said Nick Adams, director of GLAAD's Transgender Media Program, "and it is dangerous and unacceptable to out a transgender person."

CBS offered not much more than weasel-words "In the end, we believe this episode, accompanied by Zeke's own remarkable writing and speaking on the subject, has provided an unexpected but important dialogue about acceptance and treating transgender people with respect,"

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In Real Life?

Daphne Xu's picture

There was an old saying, "Life imitates art." About a couple decades ago, it morphed into the phrase, "Life imitates farce." Subsequent events have shown how frighteningly justified that saying is.

Then there's the saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me -- can't get fooled again." GW Bush    What do we conclude if I'm fooled 10000 times?

-- Daphne Xu

-- Try saying freefloating three times rapidly.

If only they would...

Daphne Xu's picture

If only they would... Unfortunately, they didn't do it the previous 9999 times, so...

-- Daphne Xu

-- Try saying freefloating three times rapidly.

CBS

Frank's picture

Could have edited it out of the episode, but chose not to...so they have to take some responsibility too.

Hugs

Frank